"Friendship Drive Charging" put on Hiatus. Reasons inside. · 7:56am May 30th, 2021
As you may know, this entire story is co-authored by a GPT-3 text transformer. This is essential to my writing and to the story.
However, the provider of this AI has made some deeply immoral decisions that i can no longer justify supporting them.
Their backwards ideas on harm reduction, fiction as coping tools, and the insane claim that people can be harmed by unpublished fiction is a moral desaster coming from their position of what looks like religious fundamentalism.
Strings of text aren't real people.
they are also bannning users for content that the AI generated because it was part of the training material they fed the AI.
this guy did a much better summary of whats going on: (potentially NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEb169YYq6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ntu4V9AhY
This clearly shows that they have no clue what they are doing. they have access to state-of-the-art neural networks, and they decide to write a content filter using RegEx. RegEx!
Automated content filter is not a technoology that can work reliably (and the basic idea of an automated content filter is immoral.
But latitude built one, and they did so using RegEx! REGEX CAN'T EVEN TELL IF AN EMAIL ADDRESS IS VALID.
their broadside assault on free speech and freedom of thought, mental health, sexual self-determination, and
not to mention their privacy and security breaches, their illegal failure to inform users of the stolen data.
All this is something i cannot support and i have cancelled my subscription.
As a result, active writing on the fic is essentially halted.
i do not expect this hiatus to last very long. As NovelAI is promising an alternative "Soon"™. i will continue to write outlines for the future chapters. Planning of the main story arc is 95% complete, and when active writing and publishing resumes, i expect this to go a lot quicker. Only obstacle to active publishing could be the fact that i resume working in about two months.
But i think it's a nice coincidence that this happens at a time where i publish a chapter where preconceived notions are challenge
